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...breach of contract, but law professor William W. McCurdy got his Horse Dobbin yesterday. Dobbin, a mythical beast which figures prominently in McCurdy's course on contracts, became very real horse flesh behind Austin Hall during the 11 a.m. class break when two first-year students, Fred L. Atwood and Henfry B. Shepard, Jr., presented McCurdy with a hungry nag rented for the occasion. But the renter for the occasion. But the renter left his map of Cambridge in his other pants, and the rentees very nearly had a horse as mythical as McCurdy's. Two hundred waiting law students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCurdy and Horse Dobbin Meet; Mythical Animal Makes Brief Visit | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

Abbotts &Zizzamias. Today's students run the gamut from A (Abbott, Adams, Atwater, Atwood) to Z (Zalecki, Zapata. Zen, Zezza, Zizzamia). The 1.278 freshmen represent 526 different schools, more than half of them public high schools, and four out of every ten students get financial aid. It is quite possible, says Classicist John Finley, to have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Other interrogators worked on Oatis in relays. Had not Oatis gone to U.S. embassy Military Attache Lieut. Colonel George Atwood and told him about plans to convert Prague apartments into army quarters? Oatis admitted he had gone to Atwood with such a rumor, which he had heard at the Indian embassy, but only to check it with him, as any reporter would. The Communists seized on his talk with Atwood as additional proof of his espionage, hammered away at him for days with other questions, thrusting written confessions in front of him all the time. But "much of the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Frame-Up in Prague | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...companies as Sperry Gyroscope, Eastern Airlines, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.), had been ordered by the Government to concentrate either on aircraft production or airlines. It decided to keep its planemaking business, and it needed a production man. From Douglas, President Kindelberger took two men with him: crack Designer "Lee" Atwood, now North American's president; and J. S. ("Stan") Smithson, a topnotch designer who is now North American's manufacturing vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Cats of MIG Alley | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall is a newspaperman (Detroit News) and a World War I doughboy who became the Army's chief historian in Europe in World War II. As historian, he quickly learned that the usual military records convey neither the look nor the sound of battle. But by questioning everyone from rifleman to army group commander-and fitting the answers together-"Slam" Marshall soon developed a way of describing war, e.g., Island Victory, Bastogne, that made other service histories sound like business balance sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Anatomy of Defeat | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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